Philosophy by the Way

Random quote A person will be all the more learned as he becomes more aware of the fact that he knows nothing. Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464...

Sometimes I would wish that all politicians were Pinocchios, for then we would know when they were lying. For the story of Pinocchio tells u...

Random quote The lie reigns. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938-. Queen from 1980-2013)

The choir receives the applaus after a beautiful performance of the opera Boris Godunov  by Modest Mussorgsky by the Dutch National Opera in...

Random quote The difference between a good prince and a tyrant is that the prince is obedient to the law, and rules his people by a will wh...

Women of Lancashire. British recruitment poster, First World War, 1915.  Source: Imperial War Museums , Image: IWM (Art.IWM PST 6061). Since...

Random quote Those who have no self-confidence call for the big man, the dictator, and for a dictator, people shout almost everywhere today...

The naturalistic fallacy is usually seen as the inverse of the moralistic fallacy, though some see the latter as a variant of the naturalis...

Random quote Those who do not think themselves are thought by others. Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958), German anarchist and writer

Now that I have given quite a lot of attention to morality in my last blogs (and not only in my last blogs). I think that it’s the right mom...

Random quote We don't sink quickly but regularly. Maurits Dekker (1896-1962), Dutch author

In his A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume famously wrote: “’ Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to ...

Random quote When a communist opponent said that the proletariat will determine what we’ll do, Albert de Jong replied: “When you say that t...

Oradour-sur-Glane, France: Massacred and destroyed by the Nazis out of revenge,  10 June 1944. Being moral or exercising power. Often it is ...

Random quote Such as make it their business to oversee human actions, do not find themselves in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile ...

Person without permanent residence Who controls the language controls the mind. Philosophically, there is a lot to say about this statement ...

Random quote The brain is part of the mind; but the mind is not part of the brain. Markus Gabriel (1980-)

Vilnius, Lithuania: Bronze sculpture Aukojimas (The Sacrifice) created by sculptor Darius Braziunas and architect Arturas Asauskas. Memorial...

Random quote Never Throw Down Your Weapons. When blind fold Hatred’s claws are shown: And Falsehood swings come dark behind, Stand to yo...

Sometimes it is helpful to view things from an unusual perspective. What I often miss in the views of many politicians is a feeling how othe...

Random quote How regrettable it is that many Great Man committed his almost superhuman acts like a dupe, like an insane one! With the initi...

Some philosophers with a big impact on human thinking are almost forgotten. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of them. I guess that...

Random quote Human feeling becomes indignant when brutal and brute trade measures are taken against innocent nations, purely for their own ...

Abstract portrait of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis on a barn somewhere in the North of the Netherlands At the end of the First World War (191...

Random quote From the time when man stole the fire from heaven and learned to work the iron, since he forcibly brought the animals and his ...

“…why, in giving your estimate of a man, do you prize him wrapped and muffled up in clothes…” In his essay “Of the inequality amongst us” ( ...

Random quote We live in a possessed world. And we know it. It would not be unexpected for anyone if the madness suddenly broke out in a fre...

The nymph Echo spied Narcissus, who had been lost in a wood, and she became immediately infatuated, following him, waiting for him to speak ...